Wound Care Nurse Specialist - Whittier Rehabilitation Hospital Bradford

Wound Care Specialist

We are looking for a Certified Wound Care RN to join our nursing team within our beautiful Rehabilitation Hospital conveniently located off of 495 on Ward Hill in Bradford Mass.

Essential Duties:

• Acts as a role model for professional practice in wound care (in outpatient wound clinic and inpatient as necessary)
• Provides and/or coordinates patient care, including appropriate referrals for required services and necessary equipment to meet the wound care needs of the patient.
• Participates in interdisciplinary meetings as appropriate.
• Evaluates equipment needs and makes recommendations to the Director of Nursing and Clinical Services appropriately.
• Is responsible for equipment management by providing education and monitoring safety.
• Collaborates with affiliating agencies to meet the care needs of the wound care patients
• Initiates a nursing assessment of patient's condition upon admission to the wound clinic.
• Assesses and interprets reports communicating findings with the assigned physician.
• Recognize and assess initial alterations in the patient's body system and verbalizes this to other members of the health care team.
• Organizes assessment data for accuracy, completeness and confidentiality
• Records assessment data in an orderly fashion and communicates, revises, and verbalizes pertinent information to other health care team members.
• Assesses, stages, measures wounds accurately and in accordance to policy.
• Photographs wounds according to policy and procedure
• Identifies patient care situations that require intervention, implements nursing actions and evaluates responses.
• Provides consultation to nursing staff and other health care professionals.
• Provides leadership in the development, implementation and evaluation of standards of practice within specialty area.
• Collaborates with Director of Nursing, Clinical Services and the Coordinator of PI to identify learning needs of the staff.

Prerequisites:

• Wound Care Certified, CWCN/CWOCN preferred
• Current Massachusetts Nursing License

Benefits offered:

• Paid Vacation, Sick and Holiday
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Long and Short term disability
• Accident, Hospital, Life and Critical Illness policies
• 401k, H.S.A, Flexible Spending

Whittier Health Network